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Favorite Pennsylvania Radio Station

Best Station in Westeren Pa. 1967 to 1970 WZUM 1590. Echo Chamber, Soulful sound, Fun Jingles, Great DJ's. Jeff Michaels [aka Stan Wall], Rockin Robie D, Bob Stevens, Dave Baker the music maker, Kip Barron, Powerful Paul Perry, Bobby Bennett who was on the air as the Program Director of WOL Washington DC was Driving down the PA.TurnPike, Listening . He stopped called Bobby from a pay phone Offered Him a job on WOL. Bobby is still in DC last on Siris Soul Town.
 
back in the day... (am I that old)... WJET 1400 in Erie... late 60's, early 70's ... Johnny Holiday... Oogie Pringle... Frank Reynolds(?) the Morning Mayor and the on-tape overnight guy Al Night, All Night (run, I believe, by the owners son?). I was young, I thought it was good.
 
I loved WJET back in the 70s. It was Frank Martin, the Morning Mayor, followed by Ronnie G (Seggi), Joey Stevens, Big Al Night. Then it changed in the later 70s when Sandy Beach and Barney Love did the mid-day and early evening shifts.
 
My vote goes to the old WHLM in Bloomsburg..mid-70s thru 'mid-80s. Station had huge cume
 
From back in the day: WPEN the 70's
KRZ in the 80's & some of the 90's
WIFI 60's & 70s
Radio Now: They all sound the same...blah, blah, blah...
Same music, same lengthy commercial breaks, same bland delivery.
If the people on the other end of the mic aren't enthusiastic about
what they're doing, how can I be enthusiastic to listen.
 
My favorite is and always will be WJPA-AM 1450/95.3 FM in Washington, PA.

I got my first radio job at WJPA (3/1980) and even though I went on to work at a number of stations, I still love WJPA.

They have a dedicated and loyal staff that's been there for years.

I remember in the mid to late 70's, Jim Jefferson was a d-j & now he has been the News Director for over 30 years.

I love the fact that they always carry local high school sporting events during the year & have increased that to carry the Washington Wild Things baseball games too.
 
My vote goes to WMLP in Milton, PA, a 1KW AM that had a killer daytime only signal in the 60's/70's that covered Central PA to Williamsport going north, west to Lock Haven, East to Mt Carmel and south to
Millersburg. Format was basically Top 40, but before the inception of formats and "brands" they played
some country, oldies, and album cuts from top albums of the day, for what was a better variety and less
repetition. Miss DJs "JJ", Paul Herbert, Bill Stewart (later WARM), Don Steese, John Yingling, George Vaughn
and Vic Michaels.
 
Jkf said:
Best station currently - WQZS, Meyersdale.
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Very interesting pick. I actually interviewed for an on-air job with the owner (Roger Wahl) and consultant back in the summer of '91 before they went on the air. It's mostly automated now, but it's basically an AM format on an FM signal. Quaint little operation...Roger and his wife Helen are on the air in the morning, they split sales duties between them, and their kids work there part-time. They air old-time radio shows at night, and for an oldies format, it's a pretty deep library. However, they don't have a website, which I found a little odd.
 
Hands down the best was the old WPMR-FM/AM Mt. Pocono..

Awesome music, some wild DJ's crazy stuff used to eminate off those airwaves, pretty legendary station.

Went down hill pretty quick when Robin Lee was brought in as PD, she kinda killed the whole thing quickly, but for 2 years, that station had a great run!
 
One's favorite radio station certainly depends on the era. In my case, as I was growing up there was WHJB in Greensburg and, when on vacation, there were the Erie AMs in a day when one also could tune in to CKLW from across the lakes. I enjoyed WMAJ and was intrigued by WRSC during my college days. Then, while I was at my first professional station, there were quite a few great small market stations, such as the old WESA and the pre-Pickle WASP in the Mid-Mon Valley, as well as solid medium market outlets such as Altoona's WFBG and WRTA and York's WSBA. More recently, there was WAVL in Apollo before it was turned into a feeder for a Tennessee contemporary Christian network. My pre-sets today include WMBS in Uniontown and WJPA-FM out of Washington.
 
WEND, 1580 on the dial, operating from a studio downstairs from the old Valley Dairy in downtown Ebensburg, a Mutual affiliate I do believe back in the day. A modest station for a county seat, with decent programming.
 
Back in Sixties, WERC in Erie. If I remember, kinda KDKA to WJET's KQV. It was sorta a Top40/Mor hybrid at 1260 with a much better signal on the beach than WJET.
 
KeyTimes950 said:
WEND, 1580 on the dial, operating from a studio downstairs from the old Valley Dairy in downtown Ebensburg, a Mutual affiliate I do believe back in the day. A modest station for a county seat, with decent programming.
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Which is now dark and for sale, and the tower is being replaced as we speak. Hopefully someone can make a go of it...because you can fit an FM translator in there and actually have a chance to do something.
 
We hope that WRDD 1580 AM, can indeed make it back from the dead soon.

It's sister station, WNCC 950 AM; is supposed to be coming back on the air soon I hear.
 
mimo said:
wvbu 90.5 in Lewisburg. Even when it's automated the variety of music is so much better than any other alternative or college radio station I've ever heard
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Zenith Transoceanic said:
iman said:
Wow, this surprises me. I have never been impressed with them. And, it's hard to find out exactly how much "variety" they play as you can only get them for about 20 minutes in a car with their blazing 100 watts.
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225 watts! ;D
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Yeah, unfortunately still 32 feet below average terrain although it's better than it used to be when WVBU had its antenna on Bucknell's physical plant building some 150 feet below HAAT. They had twice the wattage then. It appears the antenna's on the engineering building now.

When I was at WVBU back in the late 70s and early 80s, when NPR succeeded in convincing the FCC to force all Class D (sub-100 watt) stations to upgrade or face getting bumped around the dial or exterminated, VBU applied for a federal grant to go from 10 watts (mono) to 10,000 watts. It's probably a good thing that the grant was turned down or WVBU would just be an NPR repeater today with little to no student involvement. Better that they maintained student control and occasionally interesting programming at a university that has traditionally had little to no interest in their radio station. And like most stations today, they supplement the meager FM signal online.
 
radioboss said:
We hope that WRDD 1580 AM, can indeed make it back from the dead soon.

It's sister station, WNCC 950 AM; is supposed to be coming back on the air soon I hear.
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The former owner of WRDD had been upgrading his facilities for some time, and WRDD was one he intended to get to, but died before that could happen. WNCC should return on New Year's Day...they've had some engineering issues that have been pushing the sign-on date back.
 
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